Is There A Global Strategy To Attack America?
We've been pouring aid into Ukraine to prevent Putin from moving deeper into Europe and 'reclaiming lost Russian territory'. We've also greatly increased our NATO troop commitments to deter that. And our Navy has been running constant 'freedom of navigation' patrols (FONAP) in the South China Sea and Taiwan Straits.
This has significantly stressed our military. Not to the breaking point or anywhere near it, but our military leaders and soldiers are feeling it none the less. We're already struggling a bit. Stupid woke policies have harmed recruiting. Our post-Cold War drawdown left us with a smaller, less capable military. The price of everything going up has hit military procurement as well. Even increased military spending isn't helping enough.
When we switched from a Cold War military to a Global War On Terror military it left us dangerously vulnerable to hostile peer nations. China's military rose in power far faster than anyone anticipated. And we had assumed Russia was broken and harmless after the collapse of the Soviet Union. To our surprise Putin's stepped beyond his hybrid warfare campaigns and gone after Ukraine whole hog. Also the rise of Iran and it's proxy terrorist and militia groups was largely ignored. Then came the Hamas attack on Israel. With Iranian proxy groups shelling American bases in the Middle East. And now the Houthis waging war on commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
All these unexpected events are coming to a head. With Ukraine, an aggressive China and an aggressive Iran all happening at once we're stretched too thin. But is this coincidence? Or is it planned?
None of the groups in the situations listed above were willing to accept Pax Americana effectively running the entire planet. It's unlikely the smaller groups like Hamas and the Houthis were smart enough to play a global game. Even Putin is focused on his borders and 'lost lands'. But the Chinese are another matter. They've always played the global long game.
China's been doing everything in its considerable power to reduce American power and influence while increasing its own. China has its tentacles sunk deep into all the players here, directly or indirectly. The ChiComs have open alliances, military and economic, with Russia and Iran. Also North Korea. Degrading American power is in their common interest.
We’ve been challenged by soft power attacks on America via diplomacy, their Belt and Road initiative, fentanyl, TikTok, the corruption of our politicians & institutions. China's powerful and growing military has been used as a club to intimidate our Navy and our regional allies in eastern Asia and the western Pacific. It's support of Kim Jong Un is part of that. Russia has been doing the same to America, western Europe and NATO since the fall of the Soviet Union with hybrid warfare. Iran has been using proxy wars and state sponsored terrorism to try and gain regional dominance.
This all provided Chairman Xi with the perfect opportunity. China has throughout its history expertly exploited other nations to further its own goals. Russia, North Korea, Iran and Iran's proxies all want independence from western domination. It'd be naive to think that the China wouldn't and didn't try to organize these anti-western nations and groups to form a cohesive plan of attack on America.
The time-honored strategy is as old as hunter-gatherer human groups. If a beast is too powerful to simply kill, you harass it, wound it, tire it out until it's weak enough for the coup de grâce. We're getting hit all over the Middle East, in Europe, in east Asia, in the Pacific and economically challenged globally. Enough pressure, enough attacks, enough wounds and it becomes the death of a thousand cuts. This is how the Roman Empire fell. Weakend from without and within over time it's great power withered and Rome was sacked.
This is not my original idea. A lot of analysts are talking about this very scenario. Once you see it, it seems obvious. The question is, what can save us?
The foremost thing we need is strong leadership. Not down the road somewhere, but right fucking now. Our best hope seems to be the reelection of Donald Trump. Whether it's him or someone else, so long as we have the clown show currently in the White House we're in great danger.
I fear that Xi will invade Taiwan in the upcoming year. He sees Biden's weakness and Trump's incredibly strong polls. Xi also sees that with China's looming economic and demographic crises that 2024 may be China's last chance to take the final step and strike America.
But China may not go it alone. If there is a global plan by China it makes sense they would involve their co-conspirators in their strike. That could mean China attacking Taiwan, Russia striking at NATO bases in Europe, Iran attacking American bases in the Middle East, Iran & it's proxies closing down the Red Sea & Persian Gulf to shipping, and perhaps even North Korea attacking the South. As well as massive cyber attacks on our infrastructure. Perhaps even terrorist cells activating, attacking, assassinating and sabotaging all over the west. All at the same time. And of course China and Russia would use their nuclear arsenals as a threat to limit the west's military reaction.
It's not really a matter of if China would do it. It's only a matter if China could convince all the players to act in concert against us. With a pathetic, weak American administration, a woke, compromised American military and the advent of new forms of low-cost drone and hybrid warfare I think the chances of China succeeding in selling their attack plan and getting all these ducks in a row to be quite good.
While our President and his handlers are clearly blithering idiots there are still some intelligent people in our military and national security establishments. Surely they see what's going on. If this is what's happening they will be making what preparations they can. We can only hope it'll be enough.
I really hope I'm wrong about all this. But I wouldn't be at all surprised if 2024 turned out to be the most 'interesting times' for America and the west since World War II. With the decadence that's infected our society I'm not sure we can rise to the occasion. Conversely, such a struggle for our very survival might be just what America and western civilization needs to excise our social cancers and return to reality. All we can do it make our personal preps and support America any way we can. May God be on our side.